own, v. 1. have, possess, Scot. aught; keep, hold for use, hold, retain, preserve, maintain; occupy, tie up, use.
2. recognize, see, allow as valid, concede, grant; assent to, accede to, yield to, submit to; accept, go along with, agree, concur with.
3. Often own up admit, acknowledge, confess, SI. fess up, Inf. make no bones about; avow, profess, express, utter, declare, tell; make known, Inf. let on, divulge, let out, disclose, reveal, expose.
4. one one's own Informal, alone, by oneself, single, independent, autonomous, self-reliant, inner-directed, standing on one's own two feet; freewheeling, foot-loose, unconfined, at liberty, at large.
owner, n. proprietor, proprietress, holder, possessor; landlord, landlady, householder, landowner; lord, lady, master, mistress, ox, n. 1. bullock, steer; longhorn, shorthorn, zebu, bison, buffalo, water buffalo.
2. lout, dolt, oaf, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll or clod-pole or clodpate; gawk, looby, lubber, clown, slouch, Chiefly Scot. cuddy, Inf lummox, SI. klutz, SI. galoot, SI. lug, Chiefly Brit. SI. josjcin; bungler, bumbler, fumbler, botcher, blunderer, boggier, Inf butterfingers, Inf. stumblebum, Inf. duffer, SI. slob.